Saturday, January 1, 2011

5 Steps to Online Video

Develop your message
Decide your target audience and cater your message to speak directly to them. When the camera starts recording, even the best speakers stumble and get nervous. So prepare your message as if you were giving an oral presentation to an audience. Remember, with a video message, you're selling yourself along with your product or service. You want your message to be an extension of your personality.
Choose your recording device
With today's technology, recording quality video is widely available. The trick is recording quality audio. Most digital cameras have a video feature that records good quality video and audio when placed several feet away from the individual being recorded. Other devices such as the Flip video camera provided High Definition quality video that easily uploads directly to your computer.
Choose your location
A good background can enhance your video message or distract your audience. Choose a location and background that best represents your business. At the very least, choose something neutral such as a wall or plant. Most importantly, choose a location that is QUIET!
Edit and Upload
With a Flip video camera, you can upload your footage directly to Youtube. I If you would like to edit your video and add transitions and titles, there are several video editing software programs available such as Windows Movie Maker (free download), Power Director and iMovie (for MAC only). Once finished, export your video into a file format so it can be uploaded to a third party video hosting website such as Youtube.com, Vimeo, or Metacafe. Youtube is the second largest search engine on the World Wide Web, so uploading your video to Youtube makes it extremely available to thousands of viewers.
Promote
Once your video is uploaded to a video hosting site, you can email your friends, family, and clients the video link, share it on Facebook, embed the video to your website, and even pay to have your video featured first in search results.

When Did the Internet Start ?

Everyone knows the importance and the convenience of Internet but little do we know the history of Internet itself. Knowing the history and the inventors of Internet is important for us to appreciate their effort for bringing Internet to us. This article will explain the evolvement of Internet and when did the Internet start.
It began in 1950s where the US military team created Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). In 1965, they custom made Massachusetts in Institute in Technology (MIT) to create a huge network to fight against the Cold War. Then, we obtained ARPANET; a small network includes UCLA, NASA and Stamford. With a detailed research, the system went global together with London University to start the idea of Internet. In mid 1970, Internet was created and people are able to send out emails as a way of communication. After that, the team has invented USENET in 1979.
After the main idea and concept of Internet has been created, people started to think of protocols. The invention to describe the protocols network is called Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). This TCP/IP is used to host sites. The first site registered is symbolics.com. After that, a lot of companies and parties started to create their own sites by using their own unique address. The success continues by introducing malware software in 1988.
In early 1990s, the interface of Internet changed to what we can see today. In 1991, we have Tim Berners Lee who came out with his invention called World Wide Web (WWW). This had given us the convenience and flexibility in finding for information and details via Internet. All the sites are accessible via links. This is the moment where all giant companies developed their own software and sites to be incorporated in the Internet. We have Internet Explorer and Netscape as the web browsers and search engines for information. There are lots of software have been developed to give the ease of using Internet.
Internet websites are only utilized by big companies and as Internet evolves drastically, all companies see Internet as a potential place to spread out their businesses. Everyone from all around the world is accessible to Internet. The technology has been evolving until today; Internet is the most wanted source of entertainment for everyone. One can simply watch news online, search for information online, watch movies online and everything with just a simple mouse click.